Estheria Robineau-Desvoidy , 1830: 305

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185. Estheria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 305 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Estheria tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Estheria abdominalis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Estheria imperatoriae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Estheria floralis Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830; Estheria vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Estheria imperatoriae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Dexia cristata Meigen, 1826 ], by subsequent designation ( Townsend, 1916: 7).

CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 362)].

FAMILY: TACHINIDAE .

REMARKS: Robineau-Desvoidy (1863b: 348) designated Dexia cristata Meigen (as “ Estheria cristata . Meig.”) but this was not an originally included species and the designation is therefore invalid. The statement by Robineau-Desvoidy (1863b: 349) “ Le Dexia cristata de Zetterstedt n’est pas l’espèce Meigénienne, si l’on s’en rapporte à l’exacte description donnée par le naturaliste suédois qui a signalé une espèce entièrement nouvelle, à moins que ce ne soit notre Estheria vicina (Myod., p. 307, n° 5). N’ayant plus cet insecte à notre disposition, nous ne pouvons vérifier le fait ” is conditional and does not place Estheria vicina in synonymy with Dexia cristata Meigen. The type-species designation by Townsend (1916) was confirmed and Estheria placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by action of I.C.Z.N. (1959: 225 [Opinion 553]).